Compiled by Antiques and The Arts Weekly Staff and Correspondents
NEW YORK CITY — On January 20, Antiques Week in New York City kicked off in high style as usual. With so many fine antiques, artifacts and art to look at, it was hard to know where to start. Our team made its way around the city, stopping in at various events, including Sotheby’s Visions of America auction preview; the Antiques, Art & Design at Wallace Hall show; the Young Antique Dealers Association show; and more. Our full show and auction reviews will appear in an upcoming issue, but while the Antiques Week events are still ongoing, here is a sneak peek to inspire you, too, to head into the city and catch some of the events, which continue through February 1.
Enthusiasts joined the Decorative Arts Trust at the Park Avenue Armory on Sunday, January 25, for the Trust’s tenth annual Emerging Scholars Colloquium. Benjamin Prosky, president of the Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation, and Trust executive director Matthew A. Thurlow are, respectively, left and right. Speakers, second from left, included Bethany McGlyn, Eric Birkle, Emelie Gevalt, Jasper Martens and Fosca Maddaloni-Yu. The Jenrette Foundation and Mrs Sandra S. Ayres sponsored the program. Photo courtesy Decorative Arts Trust, Kelly Pedigo.
At the debut Young Antique Dealers Association Show on January 22, Margot Mayer of Curio Shop, Brooklyn, N.Y., discusses a Seventeenth Century portrait from the school of Étienne Dumonstier (1540-1603). More to follow on these emerging dealers shaping the future of antiques. —Z.G. Burnett photo.
This charming Mid Century leather bulldog, designed by Dimitri Omersa (1927-1985) for Abercrombie & Fitch, belonged to a menagerie of folk art animals from A Bird in Hand, Florham Park, N.J., at Antiques, Art & Design at Wallace Hall on January 23. Treasures from every category abounded, and will be covered in a later issue. —Z.G. Burnett photo.
Sotheby’s specialist Erik Gronning oversaw the sale of the 1677 Symon and Rebeckah Horne valuables cabinet. Attributed to the Symonds shop of Salem, Mass., the rare piece, a new discovery, sold in the room to a private collector for $1,636,000, including premium, on January 23 ($600/800,000). —Laura Beach photo.
At The Winter Show, Hirschl & Adler celebrated “America at 250” with a star-studded display of American fine and decorative arts of the Federal and Classical eras. —Laura Beach photo.
Continuing through February 1 at the Park Avenue Armory, The Winter Show got off to a festive start with a Thursday evening preview. Welcoming guests were, from left, Winter Show co-chairs Michael Lynch and Lucinda C. Ballard, Winter Show executive director Helen Allen and Daniel Diaz, executive director of charity sponsor East Side House Settlement. Courtesy BFA, Yvonne Tnt.
Displayed during preview for Sotheby’s Visions of America auctions were, left, “George Washington at Princeton” by Charles Peale Polk, circa 1790-93, that sold at $609,600 ($400/600,000), and, right, “Captain Thomas Elliot and Granddaughter Deborah Hibernia O’Donnell” by Charles Willson Peale, 1796-97, unsold at $40/60,000, at Sotheby’s on January 24. —Laura Beach photo.
